A new paper is published in RSC advances. I worked with the CEREGE team of Jérôme Rose and Clément Levard on the synthesis of Fe dopped AlGe based imogolite.

20 May 2014

A new paper is published in Applied Clay Science. We studied the dispersion state of hybrid imogolite.

15 May 2014

Nicolas Arancibia Miranda came for a short visit in Saclay. Interesting discussion and upcoming interesting results.

8 Avril 2014

A new paper is published in J. Phys. Chem. C. on the deformation of imogolite nanotube upon drying.
Thanks to a systematic method developed to analyze X-ray scattering diagrams as a function of the nanotube shape, single-walled germanium-based imogolite nanotubes, known as cylindrical for more than thirty years, are shown to take an hexagonal base shape when arranged in bundles.

14 October 2013

A new paper is published in Chem. Comm. on the synthesis of micron long Germanium based imogolite nanotubes.
Up to now the length of Germanium based nanotubes was limited to less than 100 nm. We are now able to go far beyond this limit. Together with the high concentration yield, this is making the Ge-Imogolite an exceptional nanotube!

9 September 2013

A new paper is published in Angewandt Chemie on the synthesis of colloidal molecules.

15 August 2013

A new paper is published in PLOS One on the effect of cerium nanoparticles on the Swimming performance of Daphnid.

A new paper in Journal of Physical Chemistry C
"How the Diameter and Structure of (OH)3Al2O3SixGe1-xOH Imogolite Nanotubes are Controlled by an Adhesion vs Curvature Competition"

Inspired by the pioneering work of Wada in 1982, we have revisited the structural modifications obtained when Germanium is introduced in the Imogolite wall structure.
In light of the recent discovery of the multi-wall Ge-imogolite structures, we came across some new surprises. I hope you will have a nice time reading this article.

21 September 2012

A new paper in Polymer Chemistry
"Cerium oxide encapsulation by emulsion polymerization using hydrophilic macroRAFT agents"

We looked at the interaction between nanoTiO2 particules and bacteria in natural water.

27 August 2012

A new paper in Macromolecules
"Efficient Synthesis of Snowman- and Dumbbell-like Silica/Polymer Anisotropic Heterodimers through Emulsion Polymerization Using a Surface-Anchored Cationic Initiator."

We report a novel original synthetic route to hybrid dissymmetrical snowman- and dumbbell-like silica/polymer colloidal particles through emulsion polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) or styrene using a bicationic initiator...

10 July 2012

A new paper in Langmuir
"Spheres growing on a sphere: a model to predict the morphology yields of colloidal molecules obtained through a heterogeneous nucleation route."

We propose a model to explain the morphologies obtained through the heterogeneous nucleation of polystyrene on surface modified silica.

14 March 2012

A new paper in Langmuir
"Stabilization of Miniemulsion Droplets by Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles: A Step toward the Elaboration of Armored Composite Latexes"

Nanoparticles can stabilize emulsions and foams. The stabilized oil can also be polymerized. This is a step toward hybrid polymers.

26 February 2012

We publish a new paper in Polymer chemistry
"High-yield preparation of polystyrene/silica clusters of controlled morphology"

This paper is among the first outcomes of a fruitful collaborations in the ANR project ToCoMo.

31 January 2012

We publish a new paper in JACS
"Physico-chemical control over the single or double wall structure of aluminogermanate Imogolite-like nanotubes"

It concerns the control of the recently discovered imogolite-like SW/DW morphologies.

27 January 2012

A new paper in Crystal Growth & Design
"Growth and Overgrowth of Concentrated Gold Nanorods: Time Resolved SAXS and XANES"

This paper is only a small part of a serie of studies on the nano gold gowth mechanism by Fabienne Testard and Olivier Spalla.